Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
Volume 48, Issue 20, Pages 5885-5904Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00207540903104210
Keywords
manufacturing best practices; information and knowledge organisation; system design; UML
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- Engineering and Physical Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/C534220/1]
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [RES-331-27-0006]
- Loughborough University's Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IMRC) [EP/E002323/1]
- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-331-27-0006] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/C534220/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [RES-331-27-0006] Funding Source: UKRI
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The capture of manufacturing best practice knowledge in product lifecycle management systems has significant potential to improve the quality of design decisions and minimise manufacturing problems during new product development. However, providing a reusable source of manufacturing best practice is difficult due to the complexity of the viewpoint relationships between products and the manufacturing processes and resources used to produce them. This paper discusses how best to organise manufacturing best practice knowledge, the relationships between elements of this knowledge plus their relationship to product information. The paper also explores the application of UML-2 as a system design tool which can model these relationships and hence support the reuse of system design models over time. The paper identifies a set of part family and feature libraries and, most significantly, the relationships between them, as a means of capturing best practice manufacturing knowledge and illustrates how these can be linked to manufacturing resource models and product information. Design for manufacture and machining best practice views are used in the paper to illustrate the concepts developed. An experimental knowledge based system has been developed and results generated using a power transmission shaft example.
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